Intellectual Property Legal Glossary
Glossary
- AAU
- ABA #
- Abandonment
- ABC
- ABM
- ABSS
- Abstract of the Disclosure
- Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual
- ACH
- Administrative Instructions
- ADS
- AIPA
- AIPLA
- AIS
- ALC #
- Allegation of Use
- Amendment to Allege Use (AAU)
- Annex F
- Anonymous Work
- APMS
- Applicant
- Arbitrary Marks
- Architectural Work
- ASEAN
- Assignee
- Assignment
- Assignor
- ATO
- attorney
- Audiovisual Works
- Benefit Claim
- Berne Convention
- Best Edition
- BIA
- Bio-Sequence Listings
- Blackout Period
- Boolean
- BPAI
- BPAIIS
- BRM
- C-A
- Canceled
- Canceled Claim
- Cancellation Proceeding
- CD
- CEAR
- certificate of mailing
- certificate of registration
- certification mark
- CFC
- CFO/CAO
- CFR
- CFS
- Change of Name
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Children
- CIO
- CIP
- CIS
- Claims
- Classification
- Classification of Goods and Services
- Coinventor
- Collective Mark
- Collective Work
- Combination Patent
- Common Inventor
- Common Law Rights
- Compilation
- Composed Of
- Comprising
- Computer Program
- Concept
- Confirmation Number
- Conflicting Marks
- CONFU
- Consisting Essentially Of
- Consisting Of
- Continuation
- Continued Use
- continuing application
- Contracting Party
- Contracting State
- Control No.
- Copies
- Copyright Owner
- Copyrights
- COTS
- Counterpart
- CPA
- CPIC
- Created
- CRF
- CRU
- CSR
- CSS
- Current Filing Basis
- Customer Number
- Dead
- Deceased Inventor
- Declaration
- Demand
- Dependent Claim
- Deposit Account
- Derivative Work
- Descriptive Mark
- Design Code Search Manual
- Design Patent
- Design Patent Application
- Designation
- DHCP
- DiD
- Digital Transmission
- Disclaimer
- Disclosure
- Disclosure Document
- Display
- Divisional Application
- DNS
- DO
- DOC
- Docket
- Doctrine of Equivalents
- Domestic Representative
- Drawing
- DRM
- DTD
- e-Commerce
- e-Gov
- EA
- EAI
- EAST
- EBC
- eComm
- eDAN
- EDS
- EDW
- EFP
- EFS
- EFS-ABX
- EFS-Web
- EFT
- Election (PCT)
- Electronic File Wrapper
- Element
- Embodiment
- Enforceability of Patent
- EO
- ePAS
- EPO
- Establishment
- ESTTA
- eTAS
- ETC
- ETD
- eTEAS
- EU
- Ex Parte Reexamination
- Examination Copy
- Examiner's Amendment
- Examining Attorney
- Excusable Nonuse
- Express Abandonment
- Express Mail Mailing Label
- Extension Request
- Fanciful Marks
- FAS
- FASAB
- FAST
- Fastener Quality Act
- FDC
- FEA
- fee
- FFMIA
- FICC
- File Wrapper
- Filing Basis
- Filing Date
- Filing Receipt
- Filing Refusal
- Final Office Action (Rejection)
- Financial Gain
- FISMA
- Fixed
- FMFIA
- FOIA
- Food Service or Drinking Establishment
- Forms
- FQA
- FR
- FTAA
- FWC
- FY
- GAU
- Generic Term
- Geneva Phonograms Convention
- GI
- GICP
- Goods and Services
- GPRA
- Gross Square Feet of Space
- Group
- Group Art Unit
- GSA
- having
- HLA
- Home Copy
- IAC
- IB
- IC
- IDC
- IDE
- Identification of Goods and/or Services
- IDS
- IFW
- IG
- Incontestability
- Independent Claim
- Informal Application
- Information Disclosure Statement (IDS)
- Infringement
- INTA
- Intellectual Property
- Intent to Use
- Inter Partes Reexamination
- Interference
- International Agreement
- International Application
- Invention
- Inventor
- IP
- IPA
- IPEA
- IPER
- IPO
- IPR
- IRB
- ISA
- ISR
- Issue Date
- IT
- ITU
- J2EE
- JCCT
- joint application
- joint inventor
- Joint Mark
- jpg
- JPO
- JPTOS
- Kind Codes
- KSA
- Letters Patent
- LIE
- Likelihood of Confusion
- Literary Works
- Madrid Protocol
- Maintenance Fees
- Mark
- Markush Doctrine
- MARS
- Mask Work
- Mere Descriptiveness
- MiTEAS
- Motion Pictures
- MPEP
- Multiple Dependent Claim
- National Stage Application
- Native American Tribal Insignia
- NIPLECC
- NOA
- NOCC
- Non-Final Office Action
- Non-Final Office Action (Rejection)
- Non-Lawyer
- Non-Responsive Amendment
- Nonprofit Organization
- Nonprovisional Patent Application
- Normal Publication
- Notice of Abandonment
- Notice of Allowability
- Notice of Allowance
- Notice of Allowance and Fees Due
- Notice of Publication
- Notice of References Cited
- NPL
- OACS
- Oath
- OBI
- OBRA
- OED
- OEIP
- Office action
- OG
- OG - Patents
- OG - Trademarks
- OGC
- OHIM
- OHR
- OIG
- OIIP
- OIPE
- OLIA (superceded)
- OMB
- OPLA
- OPM
- Opposition Proceeding
- OPR
- Original Application
- Original Filing Basis
- OTPP
- PAC
- PAIR
- PALM
- PAR
- Parent Application
- PASAT
- Patent
- Patent Agent
- Patent and Trademark Depository Library
- Patent And Trademark Office
- Patent Appeal
- Patent Application
- Patent Application Number
- Patent Application Publication
- Patent Family
- Patent Infringement
- Patent Number
- Patent Pending
- Patentable
- Payor Number
- PBG
- PBG Final Rule
- PBX
- PCT
- PCT Regulations
- PEAI
- perform
- Performing Rights Society
- Person
- Petition to Revive an Application (Trademark Matters)
- PG Pub
- Phonorecords
- Pictorial Graphic and Sculptural Works
- PKI
- Plant Application (Patent)
- Plant Patent
- PLT
- PMA
- PMO
- POA
- POIS
- Postcard Receipt
- POWER
- PPAC
- PPS
- PPT
- Practitioner
- Precautionary Designation
- Primary Examiner
- Principal Register
- PrinTEAS
- Priority Action
- Priority Claim
- PRM
- Pro Se
- Proprietor
- Provisional Patent Application
- Pseudo Mark
- Pseudonymous Work
- PSIPS
- PSTN
- PTA
- PTDL
- PTE
- PTO
- PTOL
- PTOS
- Publication
- Publication For Opposition
- Publication Number
- publicly
- RAM
- RCE
- RE
- Record Copy
- Recordation Form Cover Sheet
- Reexamination Proceeding
- Registered Mark
- Registration
- Registration Number
- Reissue Application
- Rejoinder
- Renewal
- Representation of Mark
- Representative
- REPS
- Request (PCT)
- Request for Extension of Time to File a Statement of Use
- Request to Reinstate an Application
- Restriction
- RO
- RPO
- RTO
- RUP
- S&T
- SAFE
- SAN
- SB
- Scope
- SCORE
- SCP
- SDM
- Search
- Search Copy
- SEAS
- Section 8 Declaration of Continued Use
- Section 8 Declaration of Excusable Nonuse
- Section 9 Renewal Application
- Section 15 Declaration of Incontestability
- Sequence Listing
- Serial Number
- Series Code
- Service Component
- Service Mark
- SF
- SFFAC
- SFFAS
- SIR
- SIRA
- SITP
- SM
- Small Business Concern
- Small Entity
- SMART
- SOU
- Sound Recordings
- Specification
- Specimen
- SRM
- SSP
- Standard Character Format
- Statement of Net Cost
- Statement of Use
- Statutory Disclaimer
- Stylized Mark
- Subsequent Designation
- Substantive Reasons for Refusal
- Substitute Patent Application
- Suggestive Mark
- Supplemental Register
- Surcharge Due
- Suspension Inquiry Letter
- Suspension Letter
- TARR
- TC
- TD
- TDR
- TEAS
- Technology Center
- Term of Art
- Terminal Disclaimer
- TESS
- TICRS
- TIFF
- TIS
- TLT
- TMEP
- TMOG
- TPAC
- TPostal
- Trade Dress
- Trade Secret
- Trademark
- Trademark Act
- Trademark Appeal
- Trademark Application
- Trademark Application and Registration Retrieval
- Trademark Electronic Application System
- Trademark Electronic Search System
- Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
- TRAM
- Transfer of Copyright Ownership
- Transitional Phrase
- Transmission Program
- Transmit
- TRB
- Treaty Party
- TRIPs
- TRM
- TSG
- TSS
- TTAB
- TTY
- Typed Mark
- UDRP
- UEA
- UML
- United States
- United States Work
- UPR
- USC
- Use in Commerce
- Use-Based Application
- Useful Article
- USPS
- USPTO
- USTR
- Utility Patent
- Utility Patent Application
- WCT
- Widow Widower
- Window Close
- Window Open
- WINS
- WIPO
- WIPO Copyright Treaty
- WIPO Performances And Phonograms Treaty
- Withdrawn Claim
- Withdrawn Patent
- Word Mark
- Work Made For Hire
- Work of the United States Government
- Work of Visual Art
- Workflow
- Workflow Incoming Amendment IFW
- WPPT
- WTO
- WTO Agreement / WTO Member Country
- X patent
- XML
